In collaboration
with the Center for School-Community Collaboration at VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity, the
Department of Education, Office of Student Services, is pleased to announce a
series of one-day regional workshops on the use of Discipline, Crime, and
Violence (DCV) Data. These workshops are being offered as part of the
Prevention Through Information (PTI-VA) Project.This is the third year of a three-year
initiative, funded by a competitive grant from the U. S. Department of
Education, designed to improve the capacity of Virginia schools to collect and use school
crime and safety data for prevention planning. These workshops are designed for
school safety teams and school division/community prevention planning
teams.

PTI Data Use Workshops will focus on the use of
discipline, crime, and violence data for school- and community-based prevention
program management, including needs assessment, performance measurement,
intervention selection, monitoring, and progress reporting to the public.The workshops will also focus on strategies
for educating key stakeholders and the public about DCV data and engaging them
in prevention efforts.

Also developed as a product of the
PTI-VA initiative is an online tutorial on DCV data reporting that may be accessed
at http://www.dcvreport.org/.School division personnel involved with the
collection and reporting of discipline, crime, and violence data are encouraged
to take advantage of this new resource.Workshop participants will be expected to have reviewed the online
tutorial before attending workshops.

Data Use Workshops will be provided as
follows:

DAYDATE(2007)SITE

TuesdayFebruary
27 LongwoodUniversity

Farmville

ThursdayMarch 1Omni
Hotel

Newport News

TuesdayMarch
6Doubletree Hotel

Charlottesville

Thursday March 8University
of Mary

Washington

Fredericksburg

TuesdayMarch
13Roslyn Conference Center

Richmond

ThursdayMarch 15Southwest
Virginia

Higher
EducationCenter

Abington

TuesdayMarch 20 First
MountZion

BaptistChurch

Dumfries

TuesdayMarch
27Roanoke College

Roanoke

The workshops are being offered at no charge
to participants. Any lodging and travel expenses will be the responsibility of
the participant.Expenses may be paid
from federal funding already available to the school division under the safe
and drug-free schools program.

Pre-registration is required and space
is limited to no more than 50 participants per workshop.Individuals may register online at: http://www.soe.vcu.edu/csc.

For additional information about the
workshops, contact the Center for School Community Collaboration at
804-828-1482 or 1-800-762-6309 (toll-free).Other questions may be directed to Arlene Cundiff,
safe and drug-free schools coordinator, at 804-225-2871 or Arlene.Cundiff@doe.virginia.gov.